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Living Happily Ever After Every Day

@happilyeveraftereveryday

Finding the happily ever after in everyday life - because happiness is often a choice, and I do my best to find it everywhere. Erulisse17 on AO3 Eruanna17 on FF.net Gorgeous Wonder Woman Art from Alice X. Zhang
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wealldraw

do you ever just

happy 10 year anniversary to this game changer thank u @joscribbles for your services

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joscribbles

can’t believe it’s been 10 years since i learned to always put my name on my art, even if it’s just a shitpost, bc u never know what’s going to blow up

anyway here’s a signed version if you wanna use it to shut up people who are trying to tell you their Opinions

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layaart

dragon books!

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vicshush

[ID mostly from the alt text: An illustration of 6 book spines. The books are various shades of red, all with gold on the spines reading: "Dragons of the east and west", "The care of dragons, wyverns, and wyrms", "Myths and legends of the dragon", "Dragonology", "Drakonic legends", and "A natural history of dragons (first edition)". A sinuous, slightly-brighter-than-the-books red, scaled, barbed tail curves around the bottom of the books from the left. A matching red, shaggy-scaled, spiky-crested, long-necked head with a long snout, two horns that go almost straight back from the head, and cross-pupiled golden eyes peers around the middle of the books, from the right -- a little, red dragon curls around the books. /end ID]

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We're just ONE WEEKEND AWAY from the premiere of Arc 3! And OF COURSE we have some new Arc art to share with you all, once again lovingly brought to life by Lorena Lammer.

How many new details can you spot in each photo?

Also some MAJORLY exciting news: we're coming in on breaking 30k Patreon subscribers, AHOOHOO! Thank you all SO MUCH for your continued support, we are so beyond honored to be able to share this world and these stories with you.

GET EXCITED!!!

You can find Lorena and her work here:

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socialmaya

[image description: tweet by Netchimen’s Reverie that reads “Tolkien describing places that are evil: no trees grow there” /end description]

This is doubtless because of his experience of the trenches in the Great War.

Like, this is what things looked like to soldiers who fought in that war (image in black and white of a solitary soldier walking across a muddy wasteland pocked with puddles):

Here’s Delville Wood, the site of a battle in 1916 (sepia image of a wasteland dotted with broken and dead trees):

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Here’s an image from the Battle of the Somme, in which Tolkien participated (image of soldiers standing above and inside a trench or earthwork in a grey wasteland; smoke from artillery is on the horizon)

So yeah: no trees = evil was Tolkien’s own direct lived experience. It’s precisely why Mordor and the wastelands around it look like they do in his books.

the plateau of gorgoroth, the heartland of mordor, is described as being scarred by countless pits dug by orcs the true seat of evil is full of foxholes and trenches

There’s a lesson to be learned here.

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purlturtle

I hope Tolkien would be happy to learn that a hundred years on, trees grow again here:

I think that Tolkien would be very happy to see that.

The trees have reclaimed the land in which hell had been brought

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ianosmond

Important safety information about the eclipse on Monday

  1. You *can* remove the eclipse glasses during totality; not before or after.
  2. If you find yourself falling apart instead of falling in love, turn around, bright eyes.
  3. It is no longer considered best practice to cut the beating heart out of a human chest at the top of a pyramid to bring the sun back; nowadays, they just short out a LUCAS device.
  4. If you are imprisoned by an evil bishop, break out, and look for a hawk and a wolf who are in love.
  5. Most critically - No matter what, do not buy any strange and exotic plants which mysteriously appear during the eclipse.